This year’s annual senior art exhibit, featuring the final thesis projects of graduating studio art majors, will be on display from April 27 to May 12 at Scripps College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. An opening reception is scheduled at 7 p.m. on April 27. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. The reception includes live music and light refreshments. Rooms of Our Own features book arts, ceramics, digital art and video, painting, and photography. It displays the culmination of the artists’ work during their senior year. In addition to creating their works, the students conceptualize and install the exhibition, write artist statements, collect funding, and design publicity for the exhibition.

Sarah Brumlis majoring in Studio Art concentrated in Photography, along with a Media Studies minor. For her thesis project, she created a video that incorporates video in real time to illustrate four different techniques used to help children diagnosed with dyslexia in overcoming their challenges in reading and writing English. This project is meant to illustrate the “behind-the-scenes” aspects of what it takes for someone with dyslexia to understand some basic principles governing the English language.

For Aiyanna Cameron-Lewis, growing up near old-growth forests and the Willamette River nurtured within her an understanding of the underlying and consummate interconnection between the natural environment and human existence. As an Art and International Relations major she has chosen to further explore and represent the dynamics of human-environment relations in her thesis as she believes them to be immediate and universally relevant. Through her neo-expressionist landscape paintings, Aiyanna meditates on the question of water sustainability in Los Angeles and elevates for reflection the impending juxtaposition of human development and environmental transformation. She explores and challenges the idea of Manifest Destiny as a concept that extends beyond international relations, to impact the way in which humans engage with and view the environment.

Julia Chambersis a double major in Economics-Accounting and Studio Art, with a focus in Digital Art. After graduation, she will pursue a CPA license while working for Deloitte’s audit practice. Julia draws artistic inspiration from the multitude of dreams she has retained memory of since childhood, and she has combined dreams of the past and present in her animation. In her vibrant work that navigates between the fantastic and mundane, she encourages viewers to consider the substance of their own dreams, the feelings they evoke, and what that signifies.

Justina Goldbeck is a double Art and Linguistics major with a concentration in Photography. As a Pacific Northwest Native, nature is incredibly important to her and connection to the outdoors is explored across all branches of her work. This project portrays powerful female figures and mirrors in surreal and remote environments. All of the illusions and impossibilities in her work are created on site with only mirrors and battery-powered images, and are not manipulated in Photoshop. This decision is intended to challenge what is possible in an unmanipulated image and to interject more mystery into the work. Her project aims to impress on viewers the magnificence of nature, the strength of women, and the power of beauty in art.

A Bay Area native, Caroline Golding is majoring in Studio Art with an emphasis on Digital Art. After graduation, she will be pursuing a creative marketing career in the wellness industry, as this encapsulates two of her biggest passions. For her thesis project, she created three digital portraits of herself, a close friend and her mother, assembled out of the specific pills they take in an effort to examine and raise questions about society’s collective dependence on prescription drugs. She hopes these portraits will make viewers think twice about the vexed relationship we have with western medicine and the impact our pill culture has on our bodies and society as a whole.

Madeline Hellandgrew up in Claremont before attending Scripps College, where she pursued a double major in Studio Art and Art Conservation. Her art encompasses a variety of mediums, including book arts, printmaking, watercolor, and digital art. For this project, she was inspired by complex themes of cultural heritage and the dissemination of material history that she often encountered in her studies on conservation. The resulting piece, titled Field Guide, is a mixed-media journal detailing the exploration of a fictitious culture through cartography, narrative, and illustration. It is presented through the lens of an amateur archaeologist, navigating a chain of islands to search for ruins and artifacts.

Although Judy Lin is a computer science major at Harvey Mudd College, she wanted to step back from the screen to concentrate on painting as well. For her thesis project, Lin paints large-scale landscapes of California’s Silicon Valley by pixels to reference a digital storm. Her work seeks to connect the sublime philosophy to technology’s impact on capitalism and geography.

Scottish-born Ishbel McCann grew up in Newton, Massachusetts before attending Scripps College to major in Studio Art concentrating in Digital Art. She has studied graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design, University of Art London Central St. Martins, and at DIS, a study abroad program in Copenhagen. For her senior thesis project, she delves into the process of cosmetic application as a means of self-care and identity creation in a video art piece documenting various women’s makeup routines and their motives for the application. Inspired by the role makeup has played in supporting her mental health, Ishbel showcases the way in which makeup is often much more complex than the simple assumption that it is act of vanity done to please others.

Holly Mitchell is a double major in Computer Science and Digital Art. She uses art primarily to help her form ideas about the world through narrative explorations. Her primary focus is on working through emotion and learning if there’s a right way to feel. She hopes that these careful explorations can also help others see either edifying or relatable perspectives on life in an engaging and immersive manner.

Marissa Schow is a Studio Art major from Kentfield, Calif., who emphasizes in Ceramics. Next year she will take part in a Post-Baccalaureate program, after which she hopes to pursue a career in Art Therapy. For her installation, she has replicated a child’s playroom that consists of found objects, five of which are covered in unfired clay. Each clay-covered object sits beside an uncovered object. Hanging on the wall is a clipboard that reads: “We didn’t really know what to do, or what was going to happen, or how long it was going to take, or for that matter, anything else.” The installation explores the impact of pediatric cancer on children and

Different and uncomfortable, beautiful and compelling, Stories Without Borders: Personal Narratives in Clay, the 74th Scripps College Ceramic Annual exhibition, makes room for a wide variety of perspectives expressed in clay. It celebrates artists from many backgrounds whose work addresses their social and cultural experiences. More on the artists will be shared at a special lecture at the Scripps Humanities Auditorium on Sat., Jan. 20, from 4 to 5 pm, followed by the opening reception, with live music and light refreshments, from 7 to 9 pm at the Williamson Gallery. The events are free and open to the public. The Annual runs through Apr. 8, 2018.

Patsy Cox, professor of Visual Art, California State University, Northridge, is the show’s guest curator. She had a particular interest in featuring multiple perspectives in this Annual. “As an artist and educator from a multicultural background,” she explained, “I am personally interested in exploring the manner in which cultures affect, impact, and assimilate into one’s art. For this Ceramic Annual, I have selected artists who make work that speaks directly about their identity, roots, home and sense of belonging as well. These sentiments are expressed visually and physically in their work through the artists’ use of color, form, and content.”

Participating artists include Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Christina Erives, Steven Young Lee, Roberto Lugo, Kyungmin Park, Zemer Peled, and Roxanne Swentzell. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalog with an essay by Namita Gupta Wiggers, American crafts curator and writer.

The Scripps College Ceramic Annual is the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States. The gallery is open from 12 to 5 pm, Wed. through Sun. during exhibitions. Admission is free.

Sincere thanks go to the supporters of the Ceramic Annual, principally the Pasadena Art Alliance. Special thanks also go to private donors who supported the catalog, including Julianne and David Armstrong, Francine and Bill Baker, Francine Tolkin Cooper, Dana and Kirk Delman, David Furman, Susan and Brent Maire, Diane and Igal Silber, and Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. At Scripps, thanks go to the Lincoln Ceramic Annual Fund, Lincoln Ceramic Study Center Fund, and the Paul Soldner Endowment.

Ancient Traditions, Modern Japan:
Japanese Art During the 20th Century

Opening: March 21 at 5:30 pm March 19th- March 31st, 2018 Gallery 112, Lang Art Building

The delicate patterns on a lady’s comb, the precise lines of a woodblock print, the vibrant flowers of a silk kimono: These objects and others on display in Ancient Traditions, Modern Japan have their roots in centuries-old Japanese traditions. Williamson Gallery interns Marielle Epstein, Gillian Holzer, and Milena Carothers have created an exhibit exploring how traditional Japanese art forms were employed and adapted in the 20th century. This was a period of rapid and significant change in Japan, and indicated a confrontation between ancient traditions and modern globalization.

A variety of media is displayed, including prints, photographs, textiles, and sculpture, providing a broad scope of how the changes of the 20th century manifested in material culture. These objects offer a look at how these changes were represented in urban and domestic spaces, in print and on the body. The exhibition explores the impact of modernization on human life through the eyes of Japanese cultural producers.

Please join the interns for the opening at Gallery 112 on March 21 at 5:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. This event and the exhibit is free of charge and open to the public. Hours for Gallery 112 are Monday through Friday, 9 to 11 am, and 12:10 to 5 pm. For more information, please contact Brigitte Garney at bgarney@scrippscollege.edu or call (909) 607-2973.

Gallery 112 is located in the Lang Art Building at Scripps College, 250 E. 12th St., between Columbia and Dartmouth avenues.

Different and uncomfortable, beautiful and compelling, Stories Without Borders: Personal Narratives in Clay, the 74th Scripps College Ceramic Annual exhibition, makes room for a wide variety of perspectives expressed in clay. It celebrates artists from many backgrounds whose work addresses their social and cultural experiences. More on the artists will be shared at a special lecture at the Scripps Humanities Auditorium on Sat., Jan. 20, from 4 to 5 pm, followed by the opening reception, with live music and light refreshments, from 7 to 9 pm at the Williamson Gallery. The events are free and open to the public. The Annual runs through Apr. 8, 2018.

Patsy Cox, professor of Visual Art, California State University, Northridge, is the show’s guest curator. She had a particular interest in featuring multiple perspectives in this Annual. “As an artist and educator from a multicultural background,” she explained, “I am personally interested in exploring the manner in which cultures affect, impact, and assimilate into one’s art. For this Ceramic Annual, I have selected artists who make work that speaks directly about their identity, roots, home and sense of belonging as well. These sentiments are expressed visually and physically in their work through the artists’ use of color, form, and content.”

Participating artists include Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Christina Erives, Steven Young Lee, Roberto Lugo, Kyungmin Park, Zemer Peled, and Roxanne Swentzell. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalog with an essay by Namita Gupta Wiggers, American crafts curator and writer.

The Scripps College Ceramic Annual is the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States. The gallery is open from 12 to 5 pm, Wed. through Sun. during exhibitions. Admission is free.

Sincere thanks go to the supporters of the Ceramic Annual, principally the Pasadena Art Alliance. Special thanks also go to private donors who supported the catalog, including Julianne and David Armstrong, Francine and Bill Baker, Francine Tolkin Cooper, Dana and Kirk Delman, David Furman, Susan and Brent Maire, Diane and Igal Silber, and Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. At Scripps, thanks go to the Lincoln Ceramic Annual Fund, Lincoln Ceramic Study Center Fund, and the Paul Soldner Endowment.

Different and uncomfortable, beautiful and compelling, Stories Without Borders: Personal Narratives in Clay, the 74th Scripps College Ceramic Annual exhibition, makes room for a wide variety of perspectives expressed in clay. It celebrates artists from many backgrounds whose work addresses their social and cultural experiences. More on the artists will be shared at a special lecture at the Scripps Humanities Auditorium on Sat., Jan. 20, from 4 to 5 pm, followed by the opening reception, with live music and light refreshments, from 7 to 9 pm at the Williamson Gallery. The events are free and open to the public. The Annual runs through Apr. 8, 2018.

Patsy Cox, professor of Visual Art, California State University, Northridge, is the show’s guest curator. She had a particular interest in featuring multiple perspectives in this Annual. “As an artist and educator from a multicultural background,” she explained, “I am personally interested in exploring the manner in which cultures affect, impact, and assimilate into one’s art. For this Ceramic Annual, I have selected artists who make work that speaks directly about their identity, roots, home and sense of belonging as well. These sentiments are expressed visually and physically in their work through the artists’ use of color, form, and content.”

Participating artists include Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Christina Erives, Steven Young Lee, Roberto Lugo, Kyungmin Park, Zemer Peled, and Roxanne Swentzell. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalog with an essay by Namita Gupta Wiggers, American crafts curator and writer.

The Scripps College Ceramic Annual is the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States. The gallery is open from 12 to 5 pm, Wed. through Sun. during exhibitions. Admission is free.

Sincere thanks go to the supporters of the Ceramic Annual, principally the Pasadena Art Alliance. Special thanks also go to private donors who supported the catalog, including Julianne and David Armstrong, Francine and Bill Baker, Francine Tolkin Cooper, Dana and Kirk Delman, David Furman, Susan and Brent Maire, Diane and Igal Silber, and Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. At Scripps, thanks go to the Lincoln Ceramic Annual Fund, Lincoln Ceramic Study Center Fund, and the Paul Soldner Endowment.

Artist, art historian, writer, museum founder and filmmaker, Dr. Samella Lewis devoted her career to increasing understanding of the achievements of African American artists. In honor of the Scripps College professor, the Samella Lewis Collection, a gathering of outstanding works by artists of color and women artists, was begun at Scripps. This rich collection provided the source for the upcoming exhibition, Foundations of Fortitude: Selections from the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection. Powerful and provocative, the pieces on display were produced by many of the most renowned artists of the 20th century. The exhibition opens on Jan. 8 at the Clark Humanities Museum of Scripps College, with a reception on Tues, Jan. 23 at 4 pm. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.

The exhibition features a varied selection of works on paper from such celebrated artists as: Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, John T. Scott, and Samella Lewis, herself. In addition, the exhibition will showcase a number of rare artist books donated to Scripps by Dr. Lewis, including Maya Angelou’s Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul, with etchings by Dean Mitchell; Zora Neale Hurston’s Bookmarks in the Pages of our Lives, with serigraphs by Betye Saar; and Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail, with serigraphs by Faith Ringgold.

Professor Mary MacNaughton, director of the Williamson Gallery, and Linnea Rosenberg, a Wilson intern at the Williamson Gallery, organized Foundations of Fortitude with a shared intention. Rosenberg commented: “These artists honed their creative practices with resolve, producing a unique aesthetic. Recognition and praise for their collaboration, commitment, and artistry are long overdue.”

The Clark Humanities Museum is located in the Humanities Building at the center of Scripps College Campus. Directions can be found at www.scrippscollege.edu/map/. The museum’s hours are Mon. through Fri., from 9–12:30 pm and 1:30–5 pm. Admission is free. For more information, please call (909) 607-8090.

Graduating studio art majors Robin Ossentjuk, Mia Siracusa, Erica Rawles and Mary Jane Coppock will participate in an annual exhibition of final thesis projects. The Senior Art Show is a cornerstone of the studio art major at Scripps. In addition to producing the works displayed, seniors conceptualize the show, install their pieces, write artist statements, and design publicity for the exhibition. Works are displayed in the gallery for two weeks, through the end of commencement. An opening reception will be held in the Bixby Courtyard on Friday, April 28, from 7 to 9 pm. The reception is open to the public and admission is free.

Robin Ossentjuk summarizes the individual artists’ work: “Erica Rawles’s project consists of large-scale prints of found photographs her mother took of empty lived-in spaces. Her work speaks to the impermanence and ever-changing nature of memory,” Ossentjuk explained. “Mia is painting over 100 emotionally-charged abstract paintings that speak to the process of living with trauma. Mary Jane is doing a mixed media installation that involves a claymation video, digital gifs, and large-scale sculptures. Her focus is on how people with bi-polar disorder are misrepresented in media,” she continued. “My work is a large-scale embroidery piece aimed at communicating anxiety while using a calming and therapeutic medium.”

Andy Warhol, Clint Eastwood, Ray Bradbury, Mae West–the upcoming exhibit, Actors, Artists, and Authors: The Portraits of Michael Childers, at Scripps College showcases works by the photographer of the creative elite. Combining pieces from the Scripps College collection and works on loan from the artist himself, the exhibit displays portraits ranging across several decades. The exhibition opens at theClark Humanities Museum at Scripps College on April 14, 2017. Michael Childers will give a talk entitled Icons & Legends at the museum on April 27 at 4:15 pm. The lecture will be followed by light refreshments.

Among the portraits of luminaries across the arts whom Childers has photographed throughout his impressive career, visitors will see actors such as Paul Newman and Sir Laurence Olivier, writers including Amy Tan and Tennessee Williams, and artists Chuck Arnoldi and David Hockney. Childers’ experiences as a photographer in the film industry gave him unparalleled access to stars, while his work as a founding photographer with Andy Warhol’s magazines Interview and After Dark furthered his ability to portray some of the most iconic creative persons of our time. The exhibition explores Childers’ capacity to capture the humanity beyond the celebrity–to engage the individual creativity and spirit outside of the stardom.

The show and lecture are free and open to the public. The exhibition will run from April 14 to May 15, 2017. The Clark Humanities Museum is located in the Humanities Building at the center of Scripps College Campus. Directions can be found at www.scrippscollege.edu/map/. The museum’s hours are Monday through Friday, from 9 – 12:30 pm and 1:30 – 5 pm.

Salad Days, the upcoming exhibition of pieces from the Scripps College collection, explores the vegetable world with an enthusiasm and appreciation for the natural forms, shapes, colors and details that characterize their subjects. This exhibition is part of the Wilson intern tradition: designing and curating a show highlighting works from the Scripps College Collection. The exhibition can be seen at Gallery 112, which is located in the Lang Art Building at Scripps College, 250 E. 12th St., between Columbia and Dartmouth avenues. The opening reception is on Mon., Mar. 27, from 7 to 9 pm. Light refreshments will be provided. The exhibition runs through Thurs., Apr. 6.

This year’s interns, Mary Chawaga, Anna Ghadar and Josie Ren, have taken inspiration from the Shakespearean term “salad days.” In Antony and Cleopatra (1601) Shakespeare writes, “My salad days, when I was green in judgment,” which refers to a youthful period filled with innocence and enthusiasm. Our salad days have an expiration date, though they live on in our memories. Through Salad Days, the Wilson interns hope viewers will be inspired to think twice about the seemingly mundane objects they recognize from their kitchen tables and see their simple beauty. The works range from photographs to drawings and ceramics, collected both from nearby Los Angeles and abroad.

The exhibition is free of charge and open to the public. Hours for Gallery 112 are Monday through Thursday, 8:30 to 12:30 and 1:30 to 5:00.

“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti,” wrote Melville. It is an individual experience of a place, only to be reached by traveling inward. The master ceramicists featured in this year’s Scripps College Ceramic Annual use clay to communicate the landscapes that they carry within, usually by alluding to a specific part of the country, whether Appalachia, Upper New England, the rural farmland of Minnesota, or the urban landscape of California. And they do it with the expertise of virtuosos. More on the artists will be shared at a special lecture at the Scripps Humanities Auditorium on Saturday, January 21, from 4 to 5 pm, followed by the opening reception, with live music and light refreshments, from 7 to 9 pm at the Williamson Gallery. The events are free and open to the public. The Annual runs from Jan. 21 through Apr. 9, 2017.

The 9 artists selected for the Annual, Chris Antemann, Jeff Oestreich, Diego Romero, Red Weldon Sandlin, Porntip Sangvanich, Michael Sherrill, Anna Silver, Mara Superior, and Ehren Tool, are all brilliantly innovative. “I sought ceramic heroes and ‘sheroes’ from across the United States who are masters in their fields,” said Curator Joan Takayama-Ogawa. She added, “These artists and educators are making ceramic history.”

Takayama-Ogawa is professor of Ceramics and Product Design at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Her art is in many museum collections, including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco.

The Scripps College Ceramic Annual is the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States. This exhibition, representing masters in the field of ceramics, features an illustrated catalog with an essay by art writer Jo Lauria. For more information on the exhibition, please visit rcwg.scrippscollege.edu or call (909) 607-4690. The gallery is open from 12 to 5 pm, Wed. through Sun. during exhibitions. Admission is free.

Sincere thanks go to the supporters of the Ceramic Annual, principally the Pasadena Art Alliance. Special thanks also go to private donors who supported the catalog, including Julianne and David Armstrong, Kirk and Dana Delman, David Furman, and Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. At Scripps, thanks go to the Lincoln Ceramic Annual Fund, Lincoln Ceramic Study Center Fund, and the Paul Soldner Endowment.